An 8/10 is not considered a good score now? Do you only expect 9/10 and above for games on your preferred console?

I dont think the score is the point... the point is that IGN is having XBOX specialists review playstation games... like xombie said... its like having Larry Hyrb review a PS4 game.... would YOU trust that review?

It's always about the score or is there something he said about the game in his review that you don't agree with?

Is it not actually a good thing that an Xbox guru, or as the OP puts it, "literally the most biased, pro-Xbox fanboy out there" would give a PlayStation game an 8/10? And if you don't play online then all you need to worry about are long loading times, apparrently. You know what else had long loading times? Uncharted.

If someone who doesn't normally like JRPGs or Sega games or the Dreamcast/GameCube, whatever, reviewed my favorite game and gave it an 8/10, I would be fine with it. Someone who happens to like Xbox gives a baseball game an 8/10 and it's all aboard the IGN hate train. The game isn't going to sell poorly all of a sudden.

I don't see the problem. He's a baseball fan, this is not about the platform. It's just a position, why would a IGN PS employee's review be more valid?

Also, when did they last separated game scores by platform?

E: He reviewed the game last year as well with 8.8. The average is 8 this year. Really, this is nothing.

it doesnt need to be reviewed by a PS fan either... again THATS the entire point... games shouldnt be reviewed by journalists who favor one console over another (regardless of console) and therein lies the problem with journalism these days... most reviewers are biased one way or another, and so their reviews are often skewed.

Now, does this affect most of us here on these forums? no, we have enough insight to not take journalists words to heart... and take everything with a grain of salt. But people who look for reviews for their end all decision making, dont know.

Look past the score he gave... it isnt about the score... its the fact that IGN lets obvious bias into their reviews by letting biased journalists review certain games. Is there such a thing as a non biased journalist? i still dont know if this can exist. (hell, i own every console and love GAMES, but even I have a bias in favor of playstation... i just like it a little bit more and i dont know why.)

Basically... IGN's reviewers SHOULDNT BE biased towards certain consoles... but they are (and they are OPENLY biased... which is worse)

Okay all of you guys quit crying about this. The guy HAS a PS4, and happens to be one of the only people at IGN that is into sports, so there ya go. I listen to both podcast Beyond and Unlocked, and hes hardly biased towards either console, in fact the last couple episodes all hes been doing is making fun of the fact that MS wont release actual sold numbers for the XB1.

Also, i agree with him not being very excited about this years version of it. I wasnt. i just picked it up this morning. Id say an 8/10 is pretty spot on so far.

its really quite sad when your not allowed to give your opinion on a game because some deem you to be a fanboy of another system and thus think your good review and high score are not worthy.

i'd suggest such a good score for a PS4 game from a supposed Xbox fanboy shows he's not anything other than a good reviewer.

also..

The Verdict

And those are the SportsCenter highlights. MLB 14 again offers rock-solid pitching, hitting, and fielding mechanics – and multiple choices for each one. This is, yet again, a stellar baseball simulation that’s packed with enough quality game modes to occupy and entertain me for the entire season, but there are few exciting new features, and online is currently a very laggy experience.

it doesnt need to be reviewed by a PS fan either... again THATS the entire point... games shouldnt be reviewed by journalists who favor one console over another (regardless of console) and therein lies the problem with journalism these days... most reviewers are biased one way or another, and so their reviews are often skewed.

Now, does this affect most of us here on these forums? no, we have enough insight to not take journalists words to heart... and take everything with a grain of salt. But people who look for reviews for their end all decision making, dont know.

Look past the score he gave... it isnt about the score... its the fact that IGN lets obvious bias into their reviews by letting biased journalists review certain games. Is there such a thing as a non biased journalist? i still dont know if this can exist. (hell, i own every console and love GAMES, but even I have a bias in favor of playstation... i just like it a little bit more and i dont know why.)

Basically... IGN's reviewers SHOULDNT BE biased towards certain consoles... but they are (and they are OPENLY biased... which is worse)

I'd like to see his bias displayed then, other than his role at IGN.

He is a gamer, he reviewed a game. Just because of alleged preference, doesn't mean you can't objectively (or as objectively as you can) review a game. There is no rival baseball game on the Xbox, how would this bias manifest other than if it was blatant fanboyism? He gave it a good score, and nothing stood out in his review. There isn't much merit here.

I prefer the Playstation, but that doesn't mean it's always in the back of my mind when I'm playing something else on another platform.

IGN has been a source of some pretty good fanboy ism either way. I've seen several instances of it.

This time it appears not to be the case. I checked, he didn't give separate scores to titanfall so this is no different. I didn't know they didn't score platforms differently. 8.1 is a really good score.

The only thing he might be guilty of Is downplaying the graphical upgrade on the ps4 version. From everything else I read, it's a pretty big difference. Other than that it seems like a pretty honest opinion.

I'm by no means a Ryan McCaffrey fan (Greg Miller on the other hand.) That said if Greg Miller reviewed any sports game besides Football (ok maybe Hockey now - but that should be Colin Moriarty reviewing anything hockey) I'd be pissed off, because he has little to no interest in Baseball, but loves Football.

All you all, tossing IGN down the toilet are as much of fanboys as the xbots who say the same crap about anything IGN. Take a step back and look who IGN consistently puts up as their GOTY items. When PS3 had a great exclusive they got the GOTY (and rightfully so.)

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